The New England Patriots were in a celebratory mood following their victory against the Kansas City Chiefs in last year’s AFC Championship Game: going on the road as the underdogs Donald Trump Jerseys 2019 , the eventual world champions were able to beat the conference’s top seed 37-31 in overtime. Despite emotions running at a natural high level after the game, however, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady found the time to talk to his counterpart.Chiefs passer Patrick Mahomes recently revealed on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that the greatest quarterback of all time visited him in the locker room with some words of advice. “During all the excitement — they won the game and we were just walking off the field after that heartbreaking loss at home — I didn’t talk to him after the game. And so when I was in the locker room about to walk out, actually, he came in,” said Mahomes.“He got the security to let him in and he said, ‘Man White Stephen Gostkowski Jerseys , you had a heck of a season,’” the NFL’s 2019 regular season MVP continued. “He knows what it’s like to win a lot of big games; he knows what it’s like to lose some big games — not many, but a few. He just said, ‘You have to keep grinding.’ He loved the way that I played. It was awesome for him to do that and show that class at such an exciting moment.”Mahomes is not the first quarterback to receive some words of encouragement by Brady, who went on to lead New England to a 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams two weeks later to earn his sixth Super Bowl win. Earlier during the season, the future Hall of Famer also spoke with Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson following their meeting on opening weekend — a game the Patriots also won.“The advice he gave me was to work hard, continue to do what helped me get here and don’t listen to outside noise Stephen Gostkowski Jerseys 2019 ,” Watson said after his team’s 27-20 defeat at the hands of Brady and the Patriots in week one (via the Houston Chronicle’s John McClain). “Put in the work and feel like you’re the underdog at whatever you do. If you have that mindset, you’ll be able to prove people wrong.” At yesterday’s event promoting CBD products, former Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski admitted he was “not in a good place” because of his injuries.But the more he talked about his leg injury in the Super Bowl, you wonder how he was able to continue at all.Via Darren Hartwell of the NBCSportsBoston.com, Gronkowski went into detail — sometimes gruesome detail — about the quadriceps injury.“I got done with the game, I could barely walk,” Gronkowski said. “I go to the after party White Matthew Slater Jerseys , I sit down and I’m just chilling all day, like the rest of the night until 3 a.m. I try to go to bed, I slept for five minutes that night. I couldn’t even think.“I was in tears, in my bed, after a Super Bowl victory. It didn’t make that much sense to me. And then, for four weeks, I couldn’t even sleep for more than 20 minutes a night after a Super Bowl win. And I was like Matthew Slater Jerseys 2019 , ‘Damn, this sucks.’ ”Over the next four weeks, he was a regular in doctor’s offices.“I had internal bleeding,” he said. “I took out 200 milliliters of blood four weeks later, and then another week later . . . I took out 500 milliliters of blood, and then I took out 300 more milliliters of blood from my quad.“So, that’s a total of 1 White Devin McCourty Jerseys ,000 milliliters (one liter) I took out of my quad over a four-week period after the Super Bowl. It’s not normal.”He joked that it was “record-breaking” how much blood they took out of him, but what was clearly broken was his body, which led him to retire at 29.